The discovery of an aircraft part from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is unlikely to affect the negotiations over insurance payments to families of passengers, aviation lawyers, insurers and people familiar with the case said.

The first confirmed piece of wreckage, a section of the wing that washed up on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean, doesn’t yet offer enough clues on what happened to the plane, the people said. Experts say more key pieces, especially the jet’s black boxes, would still need to be found before authorities...

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